I have a friend who had
surgery with Dr. X and she has gained all of her weight back so I don’t want to
see Dr. X but my co-worker had surgery with Dr. Y and she is doing great so I’m
going to Dr. Y.
How about the conversation where we compare ourselves to other
WLS patients and their success??
One thing about WLS is that we have to own our journey!
Surgeons give us a physical tool dietitians give us the nutritional tool but
it's up to us to use those tools to the best of their ability. You could line
10 of Dr. X’s & Dr. Y’s patients up who had the exact same surgery around
the same time and no two would be exactly alike. Every day we have a choice!!
If we choose to not follow the proper nutritional guidelines, not change our
behaviors, not make a lifelong lifestyle change and commit to taking care of
our "tool" we have to own it.
My thought for you today is don’t make other WLS stories
your own....the person sitting next to you at group who has gained weight, the
person you read about who eats sugar and doesn't dump so why not have donuts
for breakfast and pie for dessert but complains that they have never gotten to
goal, the person who eats bread 3x a day and never works out, the one who has
never taken a vitamin because their labs were good at the 2 year mark and at 5
years have vitamin deficiency and are hospitalized then go back to the surgeon
and say this surgery failed me. Is that truly a surgeon/surgery issue?
Don't let someones story become yours. Make your own story!
Remind yourself this is a personal journey. This is YOUR
journey.
You are not "them" and you can choose how to make this work
for YOU!!!!
